On KVM on my box, this reduces the overhead from an always-accept seccomp filter from ~130ns to ~17ns. Most of that comes from avoiding IRET on every syscall when seccomp is enabled. In extremely approximate hacked-up benchmarking, just bypassing IRET saves about 80ns, so there's another 43ns of savings here from simplifying the seccomp path. The diffstat is also rather nice :) Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S | 38 +++++++++++++++----------------------- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S b/arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S index 1eb3094..13e0c1d 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S @@ -479,22 +479,6 @@ sysret_signal: #ifdef CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL /* - * Fast path for syscall audit without full syscall trace. - * We just call __audit_syscall_entry() directly, and then - * jump back to the normal fast path. - */ -auditsys: - movq %r10,%r9 /* 6th arg: 4th syscall arg */ - movq %rdx,%r8 /* 5th arg: 3rd syscall arg */ - movq %rsi,%rcx /* 4th arg: 2nd syscall arg */ - movq %rdi,%rdx /* 3rd arg: 1st syscall arg */ - movq %rax,%rsi /* 2nd arg: syscall number */ - movl $AUDIT_ARCH_X86_64,%edi /* 1st arg: audit arch */ - call __audit_syscall_entry - LOAD_ARGS 0 /* reload call-clobbered registers */ - jmp system_call_fastpath - - /* * Return fast path for syscall audit. Call __audit_syscall_exit() * directly and then jump back to the fast path with TIF_SYSCALL_AUDIT * masked off. @@ -511,17 +495,25 @@ sysret_audit: /* Do syscall tracing */ tracesys: -#ifdef CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL - testl $(_TIF_WORK_SYSCALL_ENTRY & ~_TIF_SYSCALL_AUDIT),TI_flags+THREAD_INFO(%rsp,RIP-ARGOFFSET) - jz auditsys -#endif + leaq -REST_SKIP(%rsp), %rdi + movq $AUDIT_ARCH_X86_64, %rsi + call syscall_trace_enter_phase1 + test %rax, %rax + jnz tracesys_phase2 /* if needed, run the slow path */ + LOAD_ARGS 0 /* else restore clobbered regs */ + jmp system_call_fastpath /* and return to the fast path */ + +tracesys_phase2: SAVE_REST FIXUP_TOP_OF_STACK %rdi - movq %rsp,%rdi - call syscall_trace_enter + movq %rsp, %rdi + movq $AUDIT_ARCH_X86_64, %rsi + movq %rax,%rdx + call syscall_trace_enter_phase2 + /* * Reload arg registers from stack in case ptrace changed them. - * We don't reload %rax because syscall_trace_enter() returned + * We don't reload %rax because syscall_trace_entry_phase2() returned * the value it wants us to use in the table lookup. */ LOAD_ARGS ARGOFFSET, 1 -- 1.9.3